13 Things Hollywood Straight-Up Gets Wrong Every Time About These Countries, According To Locals

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1. "I will never get over in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where Düsseldorf was portrayed as some small village in the snowy mountains. It made me so angry."

2. "London is the only part of the UK. Everybody sounds like Mary Poppins and lives in manor homes. Also, we are not as polite as the movie industry makes out."

"Accents are either cut glass, estuary, or bumbling yokel. If it's not actually set in London, there are sheep free-roaming in the garden, so you know it's the country and not the city. And it will be a thatched cottage with roses around the door (in February!) or a big stone manor house-type with a long driveway so they can do a sweeping aerial shot."

—Procrastinating___

3. "We don't wear berets. Berets are from a very small region in the south of France called Pays Basque, and the hat is actually called Beret Basque."

4. "I'm Croatian/Bosnian. Every time I hear a Balkan-sounding name, I get a little hope. Then I find out it's some mafia dude or someone.

"In video games, they're criminals with annoying cousins who call three times a day to ask them to go bowling together."

—plusoneforautism

"And they're always wearing Adidas tracksuits and gaudy necklaces."

"Also, they rarely specify what country. They group all the Balkans as the same country."

5. "Australia isn't allll desert. Also, no one here 'cooks shrimp on the barbie.'"

6. "I'm sorry, but Canadians don't apologize all the time. My bad, if this offends anyone."

7. "Had to clarify to a foreigner that most of us in India don't start dancing randomly on the streets out of nowhere. He was disappointed."

8. "No, Egypt isn't all desert. No, we don't live in pyramids and poorly built brick shacks. NO, WE DON'T RIDE CAMELS. We're a normal city. Just look at pictures."

9. "The accent, my god. Firstly, there is the fact that there only seems to be one accent, whereas anyone who has been to Ireland knows that the accents can change every 10 meters!"

10. "Just come on guys. For the last few years, Poland didn't even have a real winter. And in summer, it's like 40 degrees Celsius. So I don't even know why movies and people say it's like freezing cold with polar bears just roaming around the streets."

11. "That the Amazon Rainforest and Rio de Janeiro are the only two things that exist in Brasil."

12. "You never see how sparse the US is in movies. Most of the country is farm land or fields."

13. Finally, "In the rare occasion Indonesia is shown, it’s always Bali. And they show it as if Bali isn’t sprawling with tourists 24/7."

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